Book contents
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Alejo Carpentier’s Life and Works
- Chapter 1Introduction
- Part IThe Making of the Author
- Part IIThe Polymath
- Part IIIThe Writer of Fiction
- Part IVThe Cuban Revolution
- Part VEnvisioning the Americas
- Part VICarpentier for Debate
- Chapter 28The Alejo Carpentier Foundation
- Chapter 29The Carpentier Case
- Chapter 30Growing Up with Carpentier
- Index
- References
Chapter 29 - The Carpentier Case
Lights and Shadows of a Literary Legacy
from Part VI - Carpentier for Debate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2026
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Book contents
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Alejo Carpentier in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Alejo Carpentier’s Life and Works
- Chapter 1Introduction
- Part IThe Making of the Author
- Part IIThe Polymath
- Part IIIThe Writer of Fiction
- Part IVThe Cuban Revolution
- Part VEnvisioning the Americas
- Part VICarpentier for Debate
- Chapter 28The Alejo Carpentier Foundation
- Chapter 29The Carpentier Case
- Chapter 30Growing Up with Carpentier
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter argues that the influence of Carpentier on Cuban literature of his time and after is not clear, given that there was some animosity towards him. It cites as reasons the fact of Carpentier’s absence from Cuba in the 1970s. It also acknowledges that the teachers who taught the Novísimo generation of Cuban writers with whom the author identifies most closely all emphasized the mastery of Carpentier’s prose and admired what they called Carpentier’s carnivalization of language or baroque language. The chapter concludes that understanding how Carpentier’s lifelong journalism had served as a foundation of his literary writing was an important lesson for him and others, and he ends by calling Carpentier a classic.
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- Alejo Carpentier in Context , pp. 348 - 357Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
References
Works Cited
Castellanos, Orlando. “Entrevista a Alejo Carpentier: Diciembre de 1974.” librínsula, http://librinsula.bnjm.cu/secciones/254/entrevistas/254_entrevistas_1.html.Google Scholar
Plimpton, Georges. “The Art of Fiction 21: Ernest Hemingway.” The Paris Review, no. 18, 1958, pp. 60–89.Google Scholar
Tarré, Alejandro. “Cortázar y Carpentier.” February 15, 2011, Revista Analítica, www.analitica.com/entretenimiento/cortazar-y-carpentier/.Google Scholar
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